Blade (Marvel Comics) Character Review
Blade is a fictional Character, a superhero and vampire hunter in the Marvel Comics Universe. Created by writer Marv Wolfman and penciller Gene Colan, his first appearance was in the comic book The Tomb of Dracula (July 1973) as a supporting character.
The character went on to star and co-star in several comic book series as well as a film and television series. Actor Wesley Snipes portrayed the vampire hunter in the film series, while Kirk "Sticky Fingaz" Jones
took on the role for the television series. Media adaptations of Blade
typically recast him as an African American superhero, whereas in comics
he has traditionally always been a Black British superhero. More about Blade (Marvel Comics) Character Review - keep on reading !!
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Fictional Character Biography
Early life and career - Blade (born Eric Brooks) was born in a whorehouse in the Soho neighbourhood of London, England in 1929. Blade's mother, Tara Brooks, was a prostitute at Madame Vanity's
Brothel. When his mother experienced severe labor complications, a
doctor was summoned who was in actuality Deacon Frost, a vampire
who feasted on her during Blade's birth and killed her. However, this
inadvertently passed along certain enzymes in his own blood to the
infant. This resulted in Blade's quasi-vampiric abilities, including a
greatly prolonged lifespan and the ability to sense supernatural
creatures, as well as an immunity to complete vampirism. Brooks' fellow prostitutes drove off Frost before he could kill the infant as well.
Blade grew up living at Madame Vanity's, and at age nine, returning home from school one December, he saw an old man being attacked by three vampires. Blade helped the old man, who used a silver cane to kill the vampires and fight off the attackers. The man was Jamal Afari, a jazz trumpeter and vampire-hunter who then moved into Madame Vanity's and trained the young Blade in both music and combat. Blade was soon able to defeat many of the weak, younger vampires that he and Afari found in abundance. Blade became an Olympic-level athlete and a formidable hand-to-hand combatant, with an expertise in edged weapons such as knives and daggers.
Blade grew up living at Madame Vanity's, and at age nine, returning home from school one December, he saw an old man being attacked by three vampires. Blade helped the old man, who used a silver cane to kill the vampires and fight off the attackers. The man was Jamal Afari, a jazz trumpeter and vampire-hunter who then moved into Madame Vanity's and trained the young Blade in both music and combat. Blade was soon able to defeat many of the weak, younger vampires that he and Afari found in abundance. Blade became an Olympic-level athlete and a formidable hand-to-hand combatant, with an expertise in edged weapons such as knives and daggers.
However, Blade's victories made him cocky. He joined a street gang, the Bloodshadows, headed by a much older and more powerful vampire than any Blade had met
before, named Lamia. Blade barely defeated Lamia, and, in doing so,
lost his girlfriend Glory. However, the tragedy of the experience left
Blade more determined than ever to dedicate his life to the complete
extermination of vampires.
Afari himself later fell prey to Dracula, the first occurrence in an ongoing battle between Dracula and Blade. Blade slew the vampire Afari and tracked Dracula back to Europe, Asia Minor, and Asia, staking him many times, but never completely destroying him. In China, Blade joined Ogun Strong's vampire hunters, which included Azu, Orji, and Musenda. Together, they staked Dracula
again. Dracula survived, and killed all the hunters except Blade and
Musenda (who eventually retired from vampire hunting). Orji had created a
lasting impression on Blade with his use of wooden daggers to combat
vampires, leading to Blade adopting that weapon as his preferred arms.
Consumed by grief for his fallen comrades, Blade resumed his quest
alone.
The Nightstalkers - In later years, Blade, along with King and Drake, became a frequent ally of the sorcerer Doctor Strange, and the three assisted Strange in battles with Dracula and the Darkholders and assisted in the casting of the Montesi Formula, which for a time destroyed all vampires on Earth. Blade, King, and Drake then formed the private detective agency
Borderline Investigations Inc., to combat supernatural threats.
Alongside Doctor Strange, the three detectives battled the Darkholders
again. Blade also rescued his close friend Safron Caulder from the Darkholders.
The agency discontinued after Drake left and Blade was committed to a
psychiatric hospital following a battle with a temporarily resurrected Dracula. Doctor Strange later arranged the release of Blade so that he could join Drake and King in reforming Borderline Inc. as the Nightstalkers. Blade, King, and Drake were hired by the demonic Lilith to kill the second Ghost Rider and the non-powered John Blaze. The three Nightstalkers battled Meatmarket. The Nightstalkers then teamed with Ghost Rider, Blaze, Morbius, Doctor Strange, and the Darkhold Redeemers to battle Lilith and her Lilin. The Nightstalkers also battled other threats, such as HYDRA's DOA.
Upon the eventual weakening of the Montesi Formula, and the return of
vampires, Blade encountered and staked a former ally, a now-vampiric
Taj Nital, and survived a battle with the vampire lord Varnae in which Drake and King appeared to have been killed.
Daywalker - A solo vampire-hunter once again, Blade briefly joined forces with the mystic Bible John Carik, and encountered a vampire impersonating Deacon Frost and a once-again resurrected Dracula. Later, in New Orleans, Louisiana, Blade discovered that Hannibal King
had survived, and the two joined forces to defeat a genuinely
resurrected Frost. Blade remained active in New Orleans, defeating the
vampire Ulysses Sojourner and his own former ally, Morbius, the Living Vampire, who was under Sojourner's mental thrall. Blade followed Morbius to New York, where, while teamed with Spider-Man, Blade was bitten by Morbius. Blade's blood enzymes reacted unexpectedly with Morbius's unique form of vampirism
to grant Blade many vampire strengths while eliminating weaknesses
inherent to a vampire, most notably the weakness to sunlight. It was at
this time that Blade assumed the unofficial title of "Daywalker" among
his prey.
The United Nations-sanctioned espionage agency S.H.I.E.L.D.
sought to use Blade's blood for Project: Silvereye, an attempt at
cloning vampire operatives. Blade and the vampire-hunting twins Mosha
and Mikado shut down the project. Blade later joined Noah Van Helsing
(actually Noah Tremayne, Rachel Van Helsing's adopted cousin) and
several vampire hunters worldwide to stop Dracula from becoming a
genuinely god-like vampire lord. Blade then returned to New Orleans.
Blade reencountered Dracula, and appeared to fully destroy the vampire once again, aboard the S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier Pericles V.
Unbeknownst to Blade, his wealthy father, Lucas Cross, had been
responsible for Dracula's most recent resurrection. Cross later
kidnapped Blade and attempted to force Blade to feed on a virgin
girl; in an attempt to fulfill a prophecy. Blade escaped after biting
through his own hand. Later, Blade would feed on a virgin after biting
an evil vampire priest, Draconis.
In exchange for undertaking a time travel adventure for the supervillain Doctor Doom, Blade received from Doom an elixir
that would purportedly cure a vampire of thirst for human blood but
would also remove the bloodlust vampire hunters get for killing the
undead. At the end of the series, Blade gave Hannibal King the elixir.
During this time travel mission, Blade fulfilled another part of the
prophecy by freeing his imprisoned father.
Powers and Abilities (Blade)
Comics - Due to an enzyme in his blood stream resultant from his mother's
being bitten by a vampire while giving birth to him, Blade is immune to
the bites of typical, supernatural vampires. At certain instances he
also appeared immune to vampire hypnosis as well. He lacked superhuman
physical attributes, however, and relied solely on his considerable
skill and determination until Morbius, an atypical, scientifically created vampire, bit him and Blade was turned into something resembling a dhampir.
Blade possesses superhuman strength, stamina, speed, agility,
heightened senses, and a rapid healing factor that attacks any alien
substances (chemicals/viruses) in his body and eliminates any chance of
him being rendered helpless or maimed from the inside and is unaffected
by daylight and most other traditional vampire weaknesses. He also ages
very slowly (although he's not immortal) and can preternaturally sense
supernatural activity.
Blade is a master martial artist, swordsman, marksman and
street-fighter. He is adept in the usage of throwing knives. He is
highly knowledgeable about vampire lore.
Film and television - In the films and the television series Blade originated from Detroit, Michigan.
Blade is depicted as having all of a vampire's strengths and none of
the weaknesses except for blood-thirst. Blade attempts to suppress the
thirst with a serum, but during the first film his body develops a
resistance to it. At the beginning of the second film it is stated that
Dr. Karen Jenson (from the first film) improved the serum, presumably in
the time between the two films. He is completely immune to silver,
garlic and sunlight. Blade has superhuman strength, speed, stamina,
agility, reflexes, and senses. He also has a healing factor
that allows him to heal completely from wounds overnight. It is also
mentioned in the first film that he ages like a human, while vampires
age much slower. He is a master of martial arts, practices meditation, and can speak Czech, Russian,
and to a degree the vampire language, and he has a great deal of
knowledge about hunting vampires. It is seen in the television series
that, while he is only half-vampire, Blade's saliva still produces the
enzyme that turns humans into vampires.
In Other Media
- In 1998, the New Line Cinema film Blade starred Wesley Snipes in the title role; Kris Kristofferson as Blade's mentor Abraham Whistler; and Stephen Dorff as Deacon Frost. The film was written by David S. Goyer and directed by Stephen Norrington. The film diverges almost entirely from prior comic representations of Blade, completely revamping the character's demeanor, powers and weaknesses. Traditionally, Blade was often presented as loquacious and boastful, yet in the film he is stoic and nearly silent. Rather than a normal human with immunity to vampirism and vampire hypnosis solely reliant on skill and ruthlessness, he is a superhuman with vampiric powers but none of the inherent weaknesses, with the exception of their thirst. To suppress his thirst, Whistler developed a serum, the original version being implied to be based on garlic and silver. The movie version of Blade is portrayed as an African American born in Detroit, Michigan, whereas the comic-books placed his birth in England. In the Blade TV series, his activities take place in Detroit.
- Written by Goyer and directed by Guillermo del Toro, a sequel followed in 2002: Blade II. Blade joins forces with vampire overlord Eli Damaskinos to defeat a powerful new breed of vampire called Reapers led by Jared Nomak, revealed over the course of the film to have been the result of Damaskinos attempting to create his own 'Daywalkers'.
- The 2004 film Blade: Trinity, written and directed by Goyer, introduced heavily modified versions of Hannibal King (played by Ryan Reynolds) and the Nightstalkers. Blade reluctantly joins forces with the group of vampire hunters led by Abigail Whistler (Jessica Biel), the estranged daughter of his old mentor, to destroy the first vampire, Dracula, who goes by the name "Drake" (Dominic Purcell), simultaneously using him to disperse a vampire "cure" that apparently destroys every vampire in the local area.
- In July 2011, Marvel's CEO Joe Quesada revealed that the rights to the character had reverted to Marvel Studios. In May 2013, the The Hollywood Reporter reported that Marvel has a script for a Blade feature.
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